Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-04
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

! Sheriff Lord of Nevada county, took an
| insane young man to the Stockton asylum
| yesterday.
The only arrest made yesterday was that
of Annie Daley, by officer Rider, fer being
| a common drunkard.
Sheriff Drew will take Oscar Peterman,
arrested on Wednesday for insanity, to the
Napa asylum this morning.
A. Pendleton writes the RECORD U MON
that the rainfall at Nicolaus, up to A. NJ.
yesterday, amounted to 20 of an inch.
The Sacramento river rose little yester-
day, getting up to i5 feet inches, and has
an upward tendency, under the influence
of the recent rains.
The steamer Dover cleared for the upper
Sacramento yesterday with merchandise
and lumber, and the San joaquin, No. 4,
for San Francisco, with grain.
The pay car was in the vicinity of Duns-
muir yesterday, settling with the railroad
employees. Its progress to the end of the
track was interfered with by land slide.
A committee from the San Francisco
Police Department have been in the city
for the past two days endeavoring to Sc
cure favorable action by the Legislature
upon the police bill introduced some time
ago.
Judge Van Fleet yesterday sustained the
demurrer to the information filed in the
case of George Van Kleek, accused of OBJ.
tanning money under false pretenses, and
one days time was given in which to file
new information.
Wad Ell Ward and his wife Rebecca, of
Jerusalem, Palestine, will give series OF
three Oriental entertainments in the First
povN fsofr Nsv.fh CIV H.
ings of the eth, Sth and 9th, appearing in
full Oriental costume.
The Board of Supervisors of San Joaquin
county passed through the city yesterday
on their way to Rockliu to examine granite
quarries there, and which has been offered
as material for the construction of the new
Court house in Stockton.
At meeting of the Ministers Union of
this city, held yesterday, it was decided to
invite r. T. Booth, the gospel temperance
worker, who has just returned from labors
in Australia, to hold two weeks series of
union meetings here, to commence on
the 18th inst.
In Department Two of the Superior Court
yesterday John j. O'Hare was tried on
charge of burglary, committed by entering
M. Steinkoenig's smoke-house and appro-
priating ham and other smoked meat.
The jury returned a verdict of gully of bur-
glary in the I'd degree,
The heavy showers of yesterday and last
evening caused a portion of the bulkhead
on the east side of Third street, between J
and K, in front of Wahls saloon, to break
away, leaving large hole, through which
the water from the gutter ran into the eel
lars of that and other buildings near by.
The people of Southern California are
substantiating their reputation for enter
prise and observation-disclosures by ordering
young orange trees from the Central Cali
fornia citrus belt The stock in our
nurseries is somewhat limited in this line,
but our southern friends shall have the
best we have SO long as they last.
A resident of Washington yesterday
morning examined his fyke net, set near
the western end of the Sacramento and
Yolo bridge but found it so full of catfish
that he could not raise it. Another man
went to his assistance, but they were not
strong enough for the work. Finally four
men raised the net. and took from it over
800 pounds of fish, caught during the pre-
yious night